Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication

Students on Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 requirements ETHCOMACRT

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Introductory Sequence.
1. Interpersonal Communication. One (1) course:
  - ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
  ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the study of communication, culture, identity and power. Each student does original primary research. Covers a range of topics, including small group communication around the world and among high school and college students in the United States, gendered language, slang, verbal play, texting, and institutional language.
  Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
2. Global Communication. One (1) course:
  - ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
  ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the cultural assumptions around the world that underlie why some communicative acts occur smoothly, while others become contentious. Provides a set of analytical tools for understanding the cultural specificity of communication, and a basis for analyzing miscommunication cross-culturally.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
Additional Elective Hours. Three (3) credit hours:
- ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (Approved topics: "BAD LANGUAGE" (TPC 33))
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (Approved topics: "ARTS POLITICS & GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS" (TPC 20); "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK N ROLL" (TPC 15))
- ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
- FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
- FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
- FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
- FOLK-F 307
- HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Reflects on the complexity of human experience from personal, creative, and cultural perspectives using fiction, poetry, journalism, creative nonfiction, visual art, music, and films. Students explore others' and their own experience of what it means to be human, analyze and compare the tacit philosophies present in these works, and pose their original organizing frameworks. Emphasis on interpretive skills and theory building, testing, and revising these theories to incorporate the lived experiences of others.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 220 or CMCL-C 220.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores ideas of freedom, containment and contact through a wide range of historical and fictive captivity narratives from the U.S. and beyond. Using perspectives from anthropology, literature and film, the course includes texts about slavery, prison, mental hospitals, and wartime kidnappings.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups

Credits
1–3 credit hours
Prerequisites
None
Description
An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
Repeatability
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
Repeatability
May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
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  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
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  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
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ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Exploration in comparative perspective of the social use of language, with a focus on the interrelationships among verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in ways of speaking.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 208 or CMCL-C 229.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
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  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
'Sustainability' is the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations. Traces historical and global discourses of sustainability; defines key terms and frames sustainability; engages related concepts of democracy, citizenship, and community; and develops critical thinking, research, and communication skills.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 212 or ENG-R 212.
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  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
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  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
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  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Urban legends are modern adaptations of older stories told in daily discourse, depicted in television, film and novels. Explores the defining features of urban legends: their cultural history, themes and role as cultural commentary; their popularity on the internet, in the news, and in popular culture.
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- Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Acquaints students with a few of the current systems of folk belief diffused, reinforced, and, in some cases, originated by film and video, both in the form of the documentary and the feature-length drama. Aids students in the process of thinking and writing critically about the content, meaning, and social function of these modern forms of information systems.
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FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. Focuses on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. Emphasis on the ethnography of belief systems.
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HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
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  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
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  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium

Credits
1–4 credit hours
Prerequisites
At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
Description
Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
Repeatability
May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
Elective Requirements.
1. Elective. Three (3) credit hours:
  - ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (Approved topics: "BAD LANGUAGE" (TPC 33))
  - ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (Approved topics: "ARTS POLITICS & GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS" (TPC 20); "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK N ROLL" (TPC 15))
  - ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
  - ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
  - ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
  - ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
  - ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
  - ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
  - ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
  - ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
  - ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
  - ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
  - ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
  - ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
  - ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
  - ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
  - ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
  - ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
  - ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
  - ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
  - ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
  - ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
  - ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
  - ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
  - ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
  - ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
  - FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
  - FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
  - FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
  - FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
  - FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
  - FOLK-F 307
  - HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Reflects on the complexity of human experience from personal, creative, and cultural perspectives using fiction, poetry, journalism, creative nonfiction, visual art, music, and films. Students explore others' and their own experience of what it means to be human, analyze and compare the tacit philosophies present in these works, and pose their original organizing frameworks. Emphasis on interpretive skills and theory building, testing, and revising these theories to incorporate the lived experiences of others.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 220 or CMCL-C 220.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores ideas of freedom, containment and contact through a wide range of historical and fictive captivity narratives from the U.S. and beyond. Using perspectives from anthropology, literature and film, the course includes texts about slavery, prison, mental hospitals, and wartime kidnappings.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration in comparative perspective of the social use of language, with a focus on the interrelationships among verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in ways of speaking.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 208 or CMCL-C 229.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  'Sustainability' is the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations. Traces historical and global discourses of sustainability; defines key terms and frames sustainability; engages related concepts of democracy, citizenship, and community; and develops critical thinking, research, and communication skills.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 212 or ENG-R 212.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Urban legends are modern adaptations of older stories told in daily discourse, depicted in television, film and novels. Explores the defining features of urban legends: their cultural history, themes and role as cultural commentary; their popularity on the internet, in the news, and in popular culture.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
  FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Acquaints students with a few of the current systems of folk belief diffused, reinforced, and, in some cases, originated by film and video, both in the form of the documentary and the feature-length drama. Aids students in the process of thinking and writing critically about the content, meaning, and social function of these modern forms of information systems.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. Focuses on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. Emphasis on the ethnography of belief systems.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
2. Advanced Electives. 15 credit hours:
  - ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
  - ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
  - ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
  - ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
  - ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
  - ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
  - ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
  - ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
  - ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
  - ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
  - ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
  - ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
  - ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
  - ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
  - ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
  - FOLK-F 307
  - HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  - MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
  Repeatability
  May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
  ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
  Summer 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
  Summer 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium
  
  Credits
  1–4 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
  Description
  Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
Additional Requirements.
1. Anthropology. 18 credit hours must be in Anthropology (includes the Introductory Sequence courses).
2. Residency. 18 credit hours must be completed in courses taken though the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. Certificate GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
2. Certificate Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
3. Certificate Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
4. Certificate Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Certificate Area Courses

Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (ANTHBA)
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANTHLNGBA)
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Anthropology (LINGANTBA)
Certificate in Global Human Diversity (GLHMDVACRT)
Minor in Anthropology (ANTHMIN)
Minor in Archaeology (ARCHMIN)
Minor in Ethnography of Communication (ETHCOMMMIN)
Minor in Medical Anthropology (MEDANTHMIN)
Minor in the Anthropology of Food (FOODMIN)

Exceptions to and substitutions for certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication

Requirements

Certificate hours and GPA

Certificate Area Courses

Restrictions on combining this certificate with other academic programs

Certificate requirement exceptions and substitutions